Cognitive stimulation via the exposure to ideas of other people is an effective tool in stimulating creativity in group-based creativity techniques. In this fMRI study, we investigate whether creative cognition can be enhanced through idea sharing and how performance improvements are reflected in brain activity. Thirty-one participants had to generate alternative uses of everyday objects during fMRI recording. Additionally, participants performed this task after a time period in which they had to reflect on their ideas or in which they were confronted with stimulus-related ideas of others. Cognitive stimulation was effective in improving originality, and this performance improvement was associated with activation increases in a neural network including right-hemispheric temporo-parietal, medial frontal, and posterior cingulate cortices, bilaterally. Given the involvement of these brain areas in semantic integration, memory retrieval, and attentional processes, cognitive stimulation could have resulted in a modulation of bottom-up attention enabling participants to produce more original ideas.
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ScienceDirect - NeuroImage : Enhancing creativity by means of cognitive stimulation: Evidence from an fMRI study
%0 Journal Article
%1 Fink2010
%A Fink, Andreas
%A Grabner, Roland H.
%A Gebauer, Daniela
%A Reishofer, Gernot
%A Koschutnig, Karl
%A Ebner, Franz
%D 2010
%J NeuroImage
%K background braincognitive creativity enhancing neurosome plasticq stimulation
%P -
%R 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.072
%T Enhancing creativity by means of cognitive stimulation: Evidence from an fMRI study
%U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WNP-5070DHX-5/2/0ea1c643c3474309d5beaf44b4b3fd6e
%V In Press, Uncorrected Proof
%X Cognitive stimulation via the exposure to ideas of other people is an effective tool in stimulating creativity in group-based creativity techniques. In this fMRI study, we investigate whether creative cognition can be enhanced through idea sharing and how performance improvements are reflected in brain activity. Thirty-one participants had to generate alternative uses of everyday objects during fMRI recording. Additionally, participants performed this task after a time period in which they had to reflect on their ideas or in which they were confronted with stimulus-related ideas of others. Cognitive stimulation was effective in improving originality, and this performance improvement was associated with activation increases in a neural network including right-hemispheric temporo-parietal, medial frontal, and posterior cingulate cortices, bilaterally. Given the involvement of these brain areas in semantic integration, memory retrieval, and attentional processes, cognitive stimulation could have resulted in a modulation of bottom-up attention enabling participants to produce more original ideas.
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abstract = {Cognitive stimulation via the exposure to ideas of other people is an effective tool in stimulating creativity in group-based creativity techniques. In this fMRI study, we investigate whether creative cognition can be enhanced through idea sharing and how performance improvements are reflected in brain activity. Thirty-one participants had to generate alternative uses of everyday objects during fMRI recording. Additionally, participants performed this task after a time period in which they had to reflect on their ideas or in which they were confronted with stimulus-related ideas of others. Cognitive stimulation was effective in improving originality, and this performance improvement was associated with activation increases in a neural network including right-hemispheric temporo-parietal, medial frontal, and posterior cingulate cortices, bilaterally. Given the involvement of these brain areas in semantic integration, memory retrieval, and attentional processes, cognitive stimulation could have resulted in a modulation of bottom-up attention enabling participants to produce more original ideas.},
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author = {Fink, Andreas and Grabner, Roland H. and Gebauer, Daniela and Reishofer, Gernot and Koschutnig, Karl and Ebner, Franz},
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timestamp = {2010-06-11T09:56:50.000+0200},
title = {Enhancing creativity by means of cognitive stimulation: Evidence from an fMRI study},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WNP-5070DHX-5/2/0ea1c643c3474309d5beaf44b4b3fd6e},
volume = {In Press, Uncorrected Proof},
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